Re: What does this smartd nonsense mean?

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On Tue, 26 Jan 2021 11:29:39 -0400
George N. White III wrote:

> man smartd says:
> 
>       -C, --capabilities
>               [Linux  only]  Use  libcap-ng  to  drop unneeded Linux
> process capabilities(7).  The following capabilities are kept:
>               CAP_SYS_ADMIN, CAP_SYS_RAWIO, CAP_MKNOD.
> 
>               Warning: Mail notification does not work when used.
> 
> See: https://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/libcap-ng/

So this makes my system far more secure by never notifying me
of any problems with my disks? :-).

Thanks for the info. Looking at the man page would never have
crossed my mind - man pages always seem to be about 3 years out
of date.
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